Sculptor/painter Katie Dallam entered the boxing ring for her first professional fight and, 140 blows to the head later, suffered major brain damage. (Her life became the basis for the movie Million Dollar Baby). Irish musician Graham Sharpe’s career was on the rise when advancing tinnitus caused a ringing in his ears so bad that it put an end to his rock-and-roll dreams. Sculptor Alice Wingwall experienced complete loss of sight from a degenerative eye disease. Game over for these three, right? Not so fast. Each managed to struggle, innovate, and, ultimately, through their art, transform themselves into someone new.

Notes on Blindness
2016
7.0/10

Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski
2018
7.5/10

Life in a Day
2011
7.2/10

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
2017
7.5/10

Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
2018
7.9/10

Frida
2024
6.7/10

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
2016
6.9/10

Blue
1993
7.1/10

Nude
2017
9.4/10

Ozzy: No Escape from Now
2025
8.5/10

Salinger
2013
6.3/10

Stan Lee
2023
7.1/10

Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
2022
7.0/10

Stutz
2022
7.5/10

My Beautiful Broken Brain
2014
7.1/10

Live Aid
1985
7.9/10

Finding Vivian Maier
2014
7.6/10

Girl Rising
2013
7.0/10

Mifune: The Last Samurai
2016
7.1/10

Fyre Fraud
2019
6.4/10
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
1997
6.9/10